Wrongdoing Quotes - Page 3

The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men.

Homer

Men, Cities, Kind

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With trials, you become wiser. You learn more about yourself and the people surrounding you. Me personally, I've never been the type of person to judge anyone over wrongdoing, no matter what it is. I'm just not a judgmental person.

Adrian Peterson

Judging, People, Wiser You

"Adrian Peterson opens up on new-look Vikings, his future and finding peace". Interview with Tom Pelissero, www.usatoday.com. June 18, 2014.

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If someone robs a 7-11, they took $500 and they were able to settle the next day for $50 and no admission of wrongdoing, they'd knock over that 7-11 again.

Phil Angelides

Next Day, Able, Settling

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I have no doubt that aggressively going after wrongdoing can result in real improvement. Fewer wrongdoers in city government means more honest employees; it means better city services; it means more efficient government. And punishing wrongdoing can have a strong ripple effect that deters others from going down the wrong path.

David Hoffman

Strong, Real, Mean

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But there is one whom you do not deceive, and that is Christ, our Lord. He knows all. Personally, I have felt that nobody need keep much of a record about me, except what I keep myself in my mind, which is a part of my spirit. I often question in my mind, whether it is going to require very many witnesses in addition to my own wrongdoing.

J. Reuben Clark

Mind, Needs, Records

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Believing the right things about Jesus isn't enough. You're not adopted as God's child until you confess and turn away from your wrongdoing and receive the freely offered gift of forgiveness and eternal life that Jesus purchased with his death on the cross. Until you do that, you'll always be on the outside looking in.

Lee Strobel

Jesus, Children, Believe

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In statesmanship there are predicaments from which it is impossible to escape without some wrongdoing.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Impossible, Predicaments, Statesmanship

Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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We have before us the fiendishness of business competition and the world war, passion and wrongdoing, antagonism between classes and moral depravity within them, economic tyranny above and the slave spirit below.

Karl Barth

Business, War, Passion

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But in the end, we learn we can forgive most people. The cushion of mortality makes their wrongdoing seem less dark, and whatever roads they traveled seem less foolhardy.

Walter Dean Myers

Dark, People, Forgiving

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Diana knew it wouldn't be right, but then she told herself that things only looked wrong when there was someone to see you.

Anna Godbersen

Guilt, Diana

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I respect very much the role of the media in our society; I think they can be very, very helpful. They serve as a very useful check, sort of a watchdog over the actions of the government, and I respect that. But there is a competing interest, and that is the ability of prosecutors to get information that may be absolutely essential to assist them in the investigation of illegal wrongdoing. And so you've got these two competing interests. I believe that the current policy at the Department of Justice reflects a careful balancing of those interests.

Alberto Gonzales

Believe, Thinking, Justice

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God holds each of us by a string. When we sin, we cut the string. But God ties it up again, making a knot. Each time our wrongdoing cuts the string, God ties another knot drawing us up closer to Him.

Meister Eckhart

Cutting, Knowing Who You Are, Drawing

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True law is right reason in agreement with nature;...it summons to duty by its commands, and averts from wrongdoing by its prohibitions... It is a sin to try to alter this law, nor is it allowable to attempt to repeal any part of it, and it is impossible to abolish it entirely.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Agreement, Law, Trying

"De Re Publica" by Marcus Tullius Cicero, translated by Clinton W. Keyes, Book III, Section (22), 1928.

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Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.

Ben Jonson

Heaven, Half, Venture

Ben Jonson (1838). “The Works of Ben Jonson”, p.743

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This mortal probation is a brief period-just a short span, linking the eternity of the past with the eternity of the future. Yet it was to be a period of tremendous importance. It is, in fact, the most vital period of our entire eternal existence. In this mortal state we come face to face with innumerable temptations and pressures. Sometimes we come in contact with advocates of wrongdoing, disobedience, and sin. Lucifer is going about tempting those who can be tempted to see if he can lead them astray.

ElRay L. Christiansen

Past, Temptation, Pressure

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Why did the ancients praise the Way? Did they not say it was because you find what you seek and are saved from your wrongdoings?

Laozi

Taoism, Way, Praise

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How many young girls there are who do not see any wrongdoing in following certain shameless styles like so many sheep. They certainly would blush if they could guess the impression they make and the feelings they evoke in those who see them. Do they not see the harm resulting from excess in certain gymnastic exercises and sports not suitable for virtuous girls? What sins are committed or provoked by conversations which are too free, by immodest shows, by dangerous reading. How lax have consciences become, how pagan morals!

Pope Pius XII

Girl, Sports, Reading

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How many girls there are who do not see any wrongdoing in following certain shameless styles like so many sheep. They certainly would blush if they could guess the impression they make and the feelings they evoke in those who see them.

Pope Pius XII

Girl, Sheep, Feelings

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As always, imagine how great the press corps would be if it devoted 1/1000th the energy to dissecting non-sex political wrongdoing

Glenn Greenwald

Sex, Political, Energy

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My case clearly demonstrates the need for comprehensive whistleblower protection act reform. If we had had a real process in place, and reports of wrongdoing could be taken to real, independent arbiters rather than captured officials, I might not have had to sacrifice so much to do what at this point even the President seems to agree needed to be done.

Edward Snowden

Real, Taken, Independent

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Invoke the Mercy of God and as milk returns not to the udder go not back to your wrongdoing." "Have compassion on yourself and on others and Infinite Compassion will be given to you." "In the name of Allah, All-Merciful, All Compassionate, bestow on me a Mercy that shall put me beyond the need of mercy from any other than Thee.

Muhammad

Compassion, Mercy Of God, Names

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We are rather apt to consider an act wrong because it is unpleasant to us.

George Eliot

George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.533, Penguin

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It would be one thing if we could say the system works [in Illinois], and that individuals followed procedures and were found innocent, but in fact in all the cases it was really a fluke ... We find persistent wrongdoing on the part of law enforcement. It's really sheer luck that those convicted of these [capital] crimes were exonerated in the end.

Jan Schakowsky

Illinois, Law, Luck

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To me, when someone wrongs you, you both share the burden of that wrongdoing - the pain of it weighs on both of you. Forgiveness, then, means choosing to bear the full weight all by yourself. Caleb's betrayal is something we both carry, and since he did it, all I've wanted is for him to take its weight away from me. I am not sure that I'm capable of shouldering it all myself - not sure that I am strong enough, or good enough.

Veronica Roth

Strong, Pain, Betrayal

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Most vices may be committed very genteelly: a man may debauch his friend's wife genteelly: he may cheat at cards genteelly

Samuel Johnson

Men, Wife, Vices

Samuel Johnson (1798). “Dr. Johnson's Table Talk: Containing Aphorisms on Literature, Life, and Manners; with Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons, Selected and Arranged from Dr. Boswell's Life of Johnson”, p.390

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